Unemployment falls but West Midlands job prospects are lowest in the country
Unemployment in the West Midlands has fallen but this has been more than offset by the UK’s largest decline in its employment rate, new figures show.
The region’s jobless total fell by 5,000 to 161,000 – a rate of 5.7% - in the January to March quarter, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
However, its employment rate declined by 0.7% or 42,000 compared with the October to December 2016 period. The current rate is just 71.4%, with the UK average at 74.8%.
Nationally, there were 1.54m people unemployed b... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
